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LE() NARD REPS'HER, OF CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY.

Letters .Patent No. 71,063, dated November 19, 1867.

RAILWAY-camu AND SLEEPBR.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:`

Be it known that I, LEONARD REPSHER, of Camden, Camden county, New Jersey, have invented an improved combined Railway-Chair and Sleeper; and I do h ereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descrip tion of the same.

My invention consists of a. wrought-iron bar, having Dent ends, with which the opposite rails of a railway track `are maintained in contact by certain clamps secured to the bar, as fully described hereafter, the said clamps being readily detached when the rails are to be removed.

In order to enable others skilled iu the art to make and apply my invention, I will now-proceed to describe its construction and operation, reference being had to `the accompanyingr drawing, which forms a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of my improved combined railway-chair and sleeper, with rails secured to the same.

Figure 2, a plan View ;vv and Figure 3, a perspective View.

A A are parallel rails, which rest upon and are connected by u. coupling-bar, B, the latter consisting of a plate of wrought iron, the` opposite ends of which are bent to conform to the-outer sides of the rails, as shown in the drawing. ,Against the inner side of each rail bears the bent end of a clamp, D, which is secured to the plate B by bolts a a, the latter passing through slots t' in the edges of the plate B, and into openings intov the.

clamp. Each rail is secured to the baigB and clamp D by bolts I), which pass' through the -rail,aud through the adjacent ends of the clamp and bar, as shown in the drawing.

The -combined sleepers and chairs are secured to the rails at intervals of from two to five feet, and, with I the rails, are laid upon the usual bed in the same manner as the ordinary woodenisleepers-I; or the sleepers,

chairs, andthe lower portions of the rails, may be embedded in the earth. I lrVhen a rail is to be detached, the bolts b are withdrsuvn, and the nuts are removed from -the bolts a, so that the olampsD may be lifted from contact with the coupliugbars and rail. The latter may then be removed. Inasmueh as the bolts a iit in recesses in the :edge of the bar 13, they may be withdrawn laterally, instead of vertically, from the bar` the necessity o f1einoving the earth below the bar to detach the bolts being thus avoided.

I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Iatent- 1.' The combined sleeper and chair, consisting of the conpliugbar B aml'elamps D D, the whole being constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

2. The recesses z' in the coupling-bar B, for the purpose speciiied. In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LEONARD REPSHER.

Witnesses:

CHARLES E. Fos'run, W. J. R.. DELANY. 

